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Opinion As We Like It
This Friday night, December 15, marks the first night of the festival of Hanukkah. On this date by the lunar calendar, 2,171 years ago, the Maccabee guerrillas of Judea completed their victory over their Syrian-Greek overlords and retook the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Ever since then, Jews around the world have marked the event with…
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Opinion Dear John
John Bolton’s resignation as American ambassador to the United Nations is an important and welcome step in the national healing process that began on Election Day, November 7. Bolton’s presence at the U.N. for the past 15 months, despite the Senate’s refusal to confirm him, has been a daily reminder of the Bush administration’s arrogant,…
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Opinion Says Who?
Just in time for the premiere of Mel Gibson’s latest movie, another popular culture figure has stepped forward to add his own ugly thoughts about Jews to the public discourse. As we report on this week’s Shmooze page, Don Imus, the irascible radio-and-cable talk-show host, recently complained on-air that he had been barred by his…
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Opinion Waiting for the Democrats
Many of the movers and shakers who make it their business to speak truth to power in the name of the Jewish community are jittery these days. They’ve been watching the Democrats in Washington get ready to take over the reins of Congress, and trying to figure out what it will mean for the interests…
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Opinion Just Say Yes
Ehud Olmert became Israel’s prime minister by accident last winter, after his boss, Ariel Sharon, succumbed to a stroke. Though elected to the post in his own right two months later, Olmert did not enter office with a great reserve of public faith behind him. He was an accidental premier and was viewed that way….
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Opinion Judging Friedman
Milton Friedman, the economist who died last week at age 94, was an intellectual giant of the 20th century, one of a tiny group of social theorists whose ideas could be said to define an era. Champion of free-market economics, fierce opponent of government intervention, he was responsible, more than any other individual, for the…
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Opinion A Surreal Visit
A visit by Israel’s leader is traditionally a festive time for American Jews. Going back to the days of David Ben-Gurion, such visits are a chance for members of the community to turn out en masse, show their solidarity with the world’s only Jewish state and applaud its elected chief. Topping it off, the prime…
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Opinion Time To Talk
The main item of substance at this week’s Bush-Olmert summit, the Iranian nuclear threat, was hardly more encouraging than the political atmospherics. Both leaders agree that the threat is real. Both know there is no way to contain Iran except by building a solid international front against it. But there the agreement ends. Olmert seems…
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